Hi, > This would provide a central point (saned) handling the hardware > entirely, it can chat with other things (HAL, anything over D-Bus, you > name it) and we totally avoid the current side effects we have today.
Do you mean having some cups for scanner ? Actually, i wish not, because users don't want another service. HAL can launch addon per device which allow to launch nothing if no scanner present. On the other end, scanner are more and more for professionnal which heavily use networked scanner, thus, having a protocol (like ipp for printing might be a good idea). But who will develop this ? How much years ? Regards, ?tienne.
